Although the statistical tools most often used by researchers in the field of psychology over
the last 25 years are based on frequentist statistics, it is often claimed that the alternative …

Do children learn number words by associating them with perceptual magnitudes? Recent
studies argue that approximate numerical magnitudes play a foundational role in the …

Bayesian inference has become a standard method of analysis in many fields of science.
Students and researchers in experimental psychology and cognitive science, however, have …

The notion of a compositional language of thought (LOT) has been central in computational
accounts of cognition from earliest attempts (Boole, 1854; Fodor, 1975) to the present day …

In acquiring number words, children exhibit a qualitative leap in which they transition from
understanding a few number words, to possessing a rich system of interrelated numerical …

We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the
Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both …

How is number‐concept acquisition related to overall language development? Experiments
1 and 2 measured number‐word knowledge and general vocabulary in a total of 59 …

At the beginning of preschool (M= 46 months of age), 197 (94 boys) children were
administered tasks that assessed a suite of nonsymbolic and symbolic quantitative …

Proponents of Bayesian statistical methods argue that these methods provide a complete
and coherent framework for the basic chal-lenge of relating scientific models to data …

We show that children in the Tsimane', a farming‐foraging group in the Bolivian rain‐forest,
learn number words along a similar developmental trajectory to children from industrialized …